Thanks to the extraordinary result at the 8 Hours of Bahrain, the last race of the season, Ferrari has taken the Manufacturers’ title in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship, 53 years after its last world title.
The triumph was twofold, with the FIA World Endurance Drivers’ Championship being taken by official drivers Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi at the wheel of the Ferrari – AF Corse 499P number 51, fourth at the chequered flag.
A historic achievement that arrives in the third year since Ferrari returned to the top class of endurance racing and which comes also thanks to the third place achieved by the sister car, number 50, driven by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen.
The 8 Hours of Bahrain also ended with fifth place for the number 83 AF Corse 499P, entrusted to official Ferrari driver Yifei Ye, along with Robert Kubica and Phil Hanson. With this result, the championship, besides crowning the Prancing Horse manufacturer as the winner among the Constructors, delivered first place to Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi, ahead of Ye-Kubica-Hanson; with Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen in third.
The race. The final world championship round saw the Maranello manufacturer's cars as protagonists from the start, thanks to a superlative performance from the drivers and the team as a whole. Excellent driving stints and an impeccable strategy allowed the three Ferraris to consistently remain in the top positions. With the result now secure, and Ferrari ready to be crowned champion, Pier Guidi conceded third place to his teammate Nielsen in the final stages, thus allowing the number 50 crew to climb the podium and end the season in third place in the drivers’ standings.
World titles. For Ferrari this is its 24th world title in endurance, counting both overall and class wins since the FIA championship started in 1953. This is its ninth overall title which comes after the 1972 victory in the FIA World Championship for Makes taken by the Ferrari 312 P, the Sports Prototype model from which the 499P took the hypothetical baton in 2023.
This is the marque’s first overall Drivers’ title in the top class of endurance racing, which Ferrari participated in up until 1973, an era when only the Manufacturers’ title was awarded. For Pier Guidi and Calado, who have already enjoyed many seasons at the wheel of Ferrari’s GT cars, this is their fourth drivers’ crown, the 2025 title adding to their three LMGTE Pro class titles of 2017, 2021 and 2022.
In the FIA WEC, inaugurated in 2012, this year’s success marks Ferrari’s eighth Manufacturers’ title – their first overall – after the GT class successes of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021 and 2022. The tally of world Drivers’ titles rises to six, with Ferrari drivers in LMGTE Pro class having triumphed in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2025.
The historic FIA WEC result sees the return of a World Manufacturers’ title to Maranello 17 years after the Ferrari F2008 took the Formula 1 title in 2008, while the last Drivers’ title was won by Kimi Räikkönen in 2007.
The history. As mentioned, in 2025 Ferrari sealed their ninth overall world endurance title, following those won in 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1972; in that season the 312 P contested 10 of the 11 races on the calendar, winning them all. The tally of world Manufacturers’ titles, including class titles, rises to 24, the most recent of which was in 2022 (GTE Manufacturers). In the history of the Drivers’ World Championship, Ferrari’s tally now stands at six titles, including GT class wins, all achieved between 2012 and 2025.
2025 season: wins, podiums, titles. The Italian team celebrated a success that has already become part of motorsport history. This year saw the Ferrari – AF Corse 499Ps collect three wins (in Qatar with the number 50 crew, at Imola and in Belgium with the number 51), two second places and three third places, as well as three pole positions (at Lusail and Imola with Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi, and at Spa with Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen).
The honours list was further enriched by the season-opening 1-2-3 finish at Lusail (with the number 83 499P finishing second) and by twin one-twos at Imola and Spa, including podium finishes from the AF Corse privateer car which, however, was not eligible for world championship points. AF Corse instead has taken the 2025 FIA World Cup for Hypercar Teams reserved for independent teams, and triumphed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Ye-Kubica-Hanson.
The standings. Ferrari finishes in first place with 245 points; in the drivers’ standings, Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi finish first with 133 points, ahead of Ye-Hanson-Kubica with 117, and Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen third with 98.
